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| General Description : | Rerum Novarum (from its first two words, Latin for "of revolution"[1]) or "Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor" is an encyclical issued by Pope Leo XIII on May 15, 1891. It was an open letter, passed to all Catholic bishops, that addressed the condition of the working classes. The first draft of the encyclical was written by Tommaso Maria Zigliara, professor from 1870 to 1879 at the College of Saint Thomas, the future Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum. Zigliara, a member of seven Roman congregations including the Congregation for Studies, was a co-founder of the Academia Romano di San Tommaso in 1870. Zigliara's fame as a scholar at the forefront of the Thomist revival at the time of his rectorship of the College of St. Thomas after 1873 was widespread in Rome and elsewhere.[2] Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler and Cardinal Henry Edward Manning were also influential in its composition. It discussed the relationships and mutual duties between labor and obtaining capital, as well as government and its citizens. Of primary concern was the need for some amelioration for "The misery and wretchedness pressing so unjustly on the majority of the working class."[3] It supported the rights of labor to form unions, rejected communism and unrestricted capitalism, whilst affirming the right to private property. Many of the positions in Rerum Novarum were supplemented by later encyclicals, in particular Pius XI's Quadragesimo Anno (1931), John XXIII's Mater et Magistra (1961), and John Paul II's Centesimus Annus (1991). |
| Face value | 1 Franc |
| Catalog code (Michel) | BE 1418 |
| Catalog code (Scott) | BE 661 |
| Catalog code | Yvert et Tellier BE 1361 Stanley Gibbons BE 1960 AFA number BE 1439 Belgium BE 1361 Unificato BE 1361 |
| Stamp colour | multicolor |
| Stamp use | Commemorative stamp |
| Print run | 5.000.000 |
| Issue date | 12/02/1966 |
| Designer | Oscar Bonnevalle |
| Paper type | Stamp |
| Print technique | photogravure |
| Perforation | 11 1/2 |
| Height | 28.00 mm |
| Width | 39.00 mm |
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